Adding OpenBSD sudo to the FreeBSD base system?

[Constantine A. Murenin]

On 19/07/05, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2005-07-19 11:16, Joachim Str?mbergson <watchman at ludd.ltu.se> wrote:
> > Aloha!
> >
> > (I've Googled around a bit, but failed to find much previous posts about
> > this though I'm sure it has been discussed...)
> >
> > Have anybody (in core etc) considered adding a sudo implementation to
> > thr FreeBSD base system. At least for me, sudo is an important part of
> > implementing good security policy in FreeBSD.
> >
> > Yes, it is available as a port, but in a similar fashion of for example,
> > isn't sudo important enough to be included as an imported tool in the
> > base system?
> >
> > My thought was to sync/import the sudo implementation from OpenBSD. Bad
> > idea?
> 
> Maybe not so bad if the OpenBSD version of sudo has useful enhancements
> of any sort (i.e. has gone through a thorough security audit, or it
> includes features that are not available through the Ports version,
> or if the OpenBSD sudo uses a BSD and not an ISC-style license).

<URL:http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html>:
>    The ISC copyright is functionally equivalent to a two-term BSD copyright with language removed that is made unnecessary by the Berne convention. This is the preferred license for new code incorporated into OpenBSD. A sample license is included in the source tree as /usr/src/share/misc/license.template. 

What's the reason that you'd prefer a BSD-licence over ISC-style licence? 

Cheers,
Constantine.